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Julian Strawther provides the spark from the bank, and even loses a tooth, since the nuggets strength the game 7 against Thunder.

Now, this was finally a role in which Julian Strawther could sink his teeth, even if one cost him one.

Playing extended significant minutes for the first time in the series, the Denver Nuggets guard tested a spark from the bank when Hist scored the 15 points in the second half on Thursday night. His great game helped to promote Denver to a 119-107 victory over Thunder and force a game 7 on Sunday in Oklahoma City.

“That is the time when you dream when you are a child that you take to the game, causing all the boys to create in you, find you in your places and you can have an impact on the game,” said Strawther, a second -year player from Gonzaga.

Strawther certainly left everything on the floor, including a tooth (a prosthetic) that appeared in the last quarter when he touched the contact of an Oklahoma City player. He tried to make officials stop playing enough time to gather it. But the action was already heading to the other side.

A ball boy picked him up in a tower and returned it to the bank. When Strawther went to the media after the game, he had it back in his place.

He explained that after losing a baby tooth as a child, the adult version, located on the right side next to his front tooth, never grew.

“We recover it,” Strawther said.

Only then, the Nuggets will return to OKC. It was his only mission after discarding an advantage of the fourth quarter and losing there in game 5.

The Nugget Bank had a great impact behind the Strawther game, Russell Westbrook (eight points) and Peyton Watson (four).

Of course, Thunder reserves were overcome 32-27. Before Thorsday, he thought, the bank’s average production was 34-22 through five games in favor of the Thunder.

“(Julian) was incredible,” said Nikola Jokic, who had 29 points, 14 rebounds and eight assists. “I had the big points, the great moments of the game.”

Strawther finished 3 or 4 from the range of 3 points and 4 or 4 from the line. Above all, he helped Nuggets maintain their impulse in the last quarter when Jokic sat on the bank to rest valuable. Strawther played 19 1/2 minutes, his maximum playoff.

This after being limited to 14 minutes combined in the last three games, including a “DNP”, did not play, in game 3. The interim coach David Adelman told him to stay ready.

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“Understanding that it is a night that I cannot register at all,” Strawther explained. “And there is a night like tonight you will travel with me.

“I and (Adelman) have had a transparent relationship through these playoffs, and I am really appreciative because I throw myself there tonight.”

His role can increase even more depending on the status of Aaron Gordon, who hurt the left hamstring at the end of the game.

“I feel good. We’ll see,” Gordon said after the game. “I will start the recovery process now, to make sure I am ready for a game 7.”

Another player who found a rhythm was beaten to striker Michael Porter Jr., who was 4 or 9 years for 10 points. He is a leg treatment with a sprain on the left shoulder.

“For me, with what I have bone, there are many additional things that I also have,” Porter explained, who said he had an injection of lidocaine into the shoulder before game 6 and plans to have led Sunay. “As I hurt my shoulder, I can’t be aware of things as I want … I don’t feel so comfortable and safe in my shot as I want to feel through these playoffs.

“But I’m still out there and I’m still trying to space the floor and shoot it when I receive it, whether it enters or leaves. I just have to stay safe.”